Operation Excess.

**Flying Officer Kyte** · 12-29-2014 09:24

HMS. Illustrious with escort passes through St. George's channel en route for Gibraltar.

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Rob.

**Lt. S.Kafloc** · 12-29-2014 09:47

Another target for the Luftwaffe to sink! Aha, keep sending them and we'll keep sinking them....well try to at least.

**Flying Officer Kyte** · 12-29-2014 15:08

Originally Posted by Skafloc

Another target for the Luftwaffe to sink! Aha, keep sending them and we'll keep sinking them....well try to at least.

Well Neil they certainly had a good crack at this one.
Rob.

**Blackronin** · 12-29-2014 16:24

These are wonderful, Rob. Are they 1/1200 scale?

**Flying Officer Kyte** · 12-30-2014 01:27

Originally Posted by Blackronin

These are wonderful, Rob. Are they 1/1200 scale?

They are indeed Quim.
I always use that size for the continuity when photographing, unless a low attack is planned or a landing such a sea planes or at airfields, when I use the same scale as the aircraft. Fortunately not done a carrier landing yet, otherwise I will have to organize another Lend-lease arrangement with Clipper's Elves, or just mock up the bit of deck where the arrester wires are, or, heaven forbid, the barrier. That of course will depend very much on what Squadron Leader Skafloc writes up in his Obit.

Rob.